Connections Episode 34
Palestinian Textbooks
Mouin Rabbani interviews Martin Konečný
Tuesday 26 April 2022
2pm EST | 20:00 CET | 21:00 Jerusalem
Join us on Tuesday, 26 April for a discussion about Palestinian textbooks between Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani and Martin Konečný. This episode of Connections will examine the decades of controversy about Palestinian Authority school textbooks, its impact on Palestinian education, and the political agendas driving this issue.
Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship.
Guest
Martin Konečný is the founder and director of the European Middle East Project (EuMEP), an independent NGO in Brussels promoting just and effective European Union policies towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Konečný has closely followed EU foreign policy, including on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as an analyst and advocate for over a decade, and is often consulted by European officials and media. Before launching EuMEP, he worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels, covering the Middle East and Central Asia. Konečný has also served as Brussels Director at Crisis Action, where he coordinated international advocacy efforts on multiple conflicts, including Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan and Israel-Palestine. He previously worked for international environmental organisations and as a journalist in the Czech Republic.
Host
Mouin Rabbani has published and commented widely on Palestinian affairs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He was previously Senior Analyst Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine.
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Connections Podcast Episode 1: The Biden Administration and the Middle East with Noam Chomsky
Connections Podcast Episode 2: The Politics of Holy Cities with Mick Dumper and Maha Samman
Connections Podcast Episode 3: Apartheid Israel with Norman Finkelstein
Connections Podcast Episode 4: Israel-Palestine: A Turning Point? with Nathan Thrall
Connections Podcast Episode 5: Investigating Israel with Lori Allen
Connections Podcast Episode 6: The US Congress, Israel, and the Palestinians with Lara Friedman
Connections Podcast Episode 7: Palestine at the Crossroads with Hanan Ashrawi
Connections Podcast Episode 9: Lebanon in Crisis with Nadya Sbaiti
Connections Episode 10: Crisis in Tunisia with Houda Mzioudet
Connections Episode 11: A Planet in the Balance with Jeffrey D. Sachs
Connections Episode 12: Focus Afghanistan with Benon Sevan
Connections Episode 13: Asylum in the USA with Basileus Zeno
Connections Episode 14 - Digital Espionage: A Global Pandemic with Marwa Fatafta
Connections Episode 15: The Lasting Legacies of US Torture with Lisa Hajjar
Connections Episode 16: Whither Yemen? with Helen Lackner
Connections Episode 17: A Decade of Upheaval with Nabih Bulos
Connections Episode 18 — Iran: Domestic and Foreign Politics with Ali Vaez
Connections Episode 22: Narrations of Palestine with Alison Glick and Nora Lester Murad
Connections Episode 23: The Global Far Right with Cas Mudde
Connections Episode 24: Crises in The Maghreb with Samia Errazzouki
Connections Episode 25: War Economies with Mark Taylor
Connections Episode 26: Libya in the Balance with Claudia Gazzini
Connections Episode 27: Israel's Sacred Terrorism with Remi Brulin
Connections Episode 28: Tunisia's New Autocracy with Mohammed Haddad
Connections Episode 29: Crisis in Afghanistan with Ali Latifi
Connections Episode 30: Yemen’s Endless War with Safa Al Ahmad
Connections Episode 31: Sudan Today with Khalid Mustafa Medani
Connections Episode 32: Protecting Cultural Heritage with Heghnar Watenpaugh
Connections Episode 33: The Struggle for Human Rights in the Middle East with Sarah Leah Whitson
